124000930
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 77,000 - 99,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn). 1967.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed (barely legible) on the reverse in the lower left and stamped with the number in the lower right. From an edition of 250 copies. On thin cardboard. 91 x 91.4 cm (35.8 x 35.9 in).
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York, and published by Factory Additions, New York.
• Warhol's “Marilyn” is the ultimate icon of modern art prints.
• In his Marilyn seres, Andy Warhol expressed all the longings associated with her to this day.
• A sheet from the first portfolio published by Warhol's Factory Additions, New York.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (since 2004, Lempertz).
LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi. Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, entry no. II.27.
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Lempertz, auction 868, Zeitgenössische Kunst, December 3, 2004, lot 691 (illustrated).
"The aura of Warhol's portraits is so strong that we remember Marilyn Monroe in the likeness Warhol gave her. This is also true for other portraits, but above all for Marylin, the star of all stars."
Carl Haenlein, in: Andy Warhol. Bilder 1961 bis 1981, ex. cat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, 1981, p. 8.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed (barely legible) on the reverse in the lower left and stamped with the number in the lower right. From an edition of 250 copies. On thin cardboard. 91 x 91.4 cm (35.8 x 35.9 in).
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York, and published by Factory Additions, New York.
• Warhol's “Marilyn” is the ultimate icon of modern art prints.
• In his Marilyn seres, Andy Warhol expressed all the longings associated with her to this day.
• A sheet from the first portfolio published by Warhol's Factory Additions, New York.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (since 2004, Lempertz).
LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi. Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, entry no. II.27.
- -
Lempertz, auction 868, Zeitgenössische Kunst, December 3, 2004, lot 691 (illustrated).
"The aura of Warhol's portraits is so strong that we remember Marilyn Monroe in the likeness Warhol gave her. This is also true for other portraits, but above all for Marylin, the star of all stars."
Carl Haenlein, in: Andy Warhol. Bilder 1961 bis 1981, ex. cat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, 1981, p. 8.
124000930
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 77,000 - 99,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.